Job is one of the best examples
of a man who loved God with his whole being. He learned to hear God's voice and
sense His presence through many diverse ways. Before Job had a personal
encounter with God, he knew God in an imperfect way. Job only knew God through
the rumors and stories he had heard about God. But after Job had a firsthand
visitation, he experienced God. Job had a face-to-face introduction not just a
dream. Job saw God with his own eyes. Job repented because he was ashamed of
his limited knowledge of God. He retracted everything he had ever said about
God.
Job Changed His Heart and Life
God bragged on Job to Satan
because Job was God's friend. He had great character and integrity. Job was a
man of his word, an honest, God-fearing man who was passionately devoted to
God. He respected God and refused to do evil. Job was the most influential man
in the East! Job had three daughters and seven sons. He owned vast herds of
livestock, had many servants, and was the richest man in the East. Job always
sought the Lord to forgive his children's sins.
When the
Lord met with His angels, Satan the Accuser was there with them. The Lord
inquired of Satan, "Where have you come from?" (Job 1:7 NIV).
Satan
replied, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it" (Job
1:7 NIV). Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you
considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless
and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil" (Job 1:8 NIV).
Satan
snarled, Does Job fear God for nothing? …Have you not put a hedge around him
and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his
hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch
out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to
your face (Job 1:9-11 NIV).
The Lord
replied, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man
himself do not lay a finger" (Job 1:12 NIV). God removed the
fiery hedge of angelic protection from around Job so that Satan could bring
loss, destruction, and death. God allowed Satan to touch Job's flesh with boils
and great pain. He touched Job's soul with grief and sorrow. Job lost it all.
Sometimes, in order to see beyond the surface into the deep things of God, we
need to battle through life experiences. Battles reveal the condition of our
hearts. Too often we see losses as a hardship because we don't look beyond the
obvious into the hidden truths God is trying to reveal.
Creative Realms
Dreams have an ability to take
the dreamer into the realms beyond where God's creative words become spirit and
truth. When we speak God's words of life into an atmosphere, that atmosphere
changes and God's kingdom comes. The atmosphere of the kingdom of God brings
forth revelation, power, light, anointing and spiritual insight. It is for us,
the believer, to know the kingdom truths that are hidden in Scripture; and
often they come to light as Holy Spirit reveals them in the dreams of the
night.
In a dream, a vision of the
night, when sound sleep falls on men, while they slumber in their beds, then He
opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, that He may turn man aside
from his conduct, and keep man from pride; He keeps back his soul from the pit,
and his life from passing over into Sheol (Job 33:15-18).
The word dream in Hebrew is
chalom, spelled: Chet, Lamed, Final Mem.
1.
The word itself can be a symbolic representation
of "the yolk of an egg where new life is formed" or "revelation that comes to
restore one back to health."
2.
This Hebrew word tells us that we can find
answers to life's questions in our dreams. Dreams can restore us to health
through intimacy with God. The esoteric meaning of the word dream is seen in
the spelling. Hebrew alphabet is a symbolic picture language. The Chet shows a
bonding to or a binding with God. The Chet represents a new metaphysical
beginning that is connected to the supernatural. The higher divine influence of
heaven comes into the natural realm and physically touches earth. The letter is
symbolized by a fence that is divided to reveal a mystical protection.
The Lamed shows us instruction
from Heaven. It is the tallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Lamed is
shaped like a shepherd's staff so it speaks to taking control of a negative
situation to bring deliverance by speaking God's word with authority. God's
throne of glory brings forth His teaching, discipline, chastening, and purpose
here on earth so the quality of man's highest endowment may be realized. It
also represents Christ the Eternal Shepherd's ascension back into heaven.
Understanding Dreams
The Final Mem represents two
forms, the hidden, concealed and the revealed mysteries of God. It symbolizes
both Moses and Messiah; chaos, trial, and testing through the forty years in
the wilderness. Mem is symbolized by water, the mighty flowing of the Holy
Spirit and the blood of Jesus that flows to cleanse and heal us from all
sickness and disease. It is in our dreams that we bind ourselves to God as He
reveals His hidden mysteries to us. By looking at the various translations of
these verses in Job 33, we can get a broader understanding. Many Hebrew
scholars and academics throughout the generations past and present have agreed
that sealed instructions form a covert bond to the dreamer. This indicates that
we receive personal messages about our future that are hidden or concealed in
the dreams.
God opens the eyes of our heart
to gain an intimate spiritual understanding of the dream. God will open our
ears to hear and our eyes to see the plans He has for our future.
God-given dreams can be more than
prophetic (foretelling the future); they can be a disciplined way of searching
out what has been hidden in a dream. We will discover the language of dreams is
the way in which God reveals His intimate secrets to us. If we do not
diligently seek God to understand the meaning of the dream, He seals the
dream's instruction so we cannot benefit from the revelation it holds for our
future.
During sleep, God can become very
intimate with us. During sleep our souls do not slumber, but they actively
search the spirit realm for the revelations of God. Our spirits are not
influenced or restricted by the limitations of the physical body while we are
asleep. In the dreams of the night, we are able to see ourselves as God sees us
in the past, present, and future.
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